Day 2 in Hong Kong was spent at Ocean Park!
Ocean Park is the more popular amusement themed park in Hong Kong, and covers an area of 870,000 square metres. It is separated by a large mountain into two parts, the Highland (Headland) is known as The Summit and the Lowland is known as The Waterfront.
We took the MTR from Tsim Sha Tsui station to Admiralty Station, and then joined the queue for City Bus 629 which brings us straight to Ocean Park.
Ocean Park is the more popular amusement themed park in Hong Kong, and covers an area of 870,000 square metres. It is separated by a large mountain into two parts, the Highland (Headland) is known as The Summit and the Lowland is known as The Waterfront.
We took the MTR from Tsim Sha Tsui station to Admiralty Station, and then joined the queue for City Bus 629 which brings us straight to Ocean Park.
Queuing up for the bus.
How the bus looks like from the inside (upper deck). Exactly like our SBS bus aint it?
We were dropped off at the Tai Shue Wan entrance aka 'highlands', where all the high-excitement rides were. But Sheryl was afraid of taking the rides, and conveniently used the excuse that she was wearing a dress to get away with sitting any of the rides, and it was not fun for Marcus to take the rides on his own. Therefore, we just went around looking at the animal enclosures.
At the Tai Shue Wan entrance
Flamingo Pond
On the Ocean Park escalator which brings us higher up the park! This escalator is the world's second longest outdoor escalator, and it stretches over 225m.
On the escalator
View from the escalator
Minature sculpture of the Raging River ride
The Mine Train ride
Posing for a picture with the rides in the background
Her expression when asked if she wants to go for the ride
Pacific Pier - houses 20 seals and sealions!
No No NOO!! It's sealions and seals... NOT seaPIGS!! :D
Training-in-progress!
Feeding-time!
Above Pacific Pier (which by the way, is fashioned after the South California coast)
Happy memories are sealed with a kiss! :D
Eagle soaring in the sky
Atoll Reef - a five-story building which was designed as a paranomic coral island featuring Indo-Pacific marine ecosystem. It houses about 2,000 fishes with almost 250 species.
Giant Tortoise
No idea what fish it is. But it's rather big.
View from the Bayview Restaurant
Jellyfish from the Sea Jelly Spectacular. Here, over 1,000 sea jellies from all over the world are housed here.
Next, was to take the cable car ride down to the low-lands.. And Sheryl is so scared of heights that she had to hold on to the pole in the centre of our cable car cabin the entire ride down. Lucky for us, we had the car to ourselves, if not, so malu!!
Hanging on for dear life.
At Whiskers Harbour - it's like a building where the performing seals/sealions are washed and fed in between their shows. Here, we saw one swimming around in a pool.
At the Dolphin University. Here, they had successfully bred dolphins using artificial insemination.
They look so pretty
Playing fetch with a ball
Face to face with an endangered Chinese Alligator. These are referred to as 'earth dragons' by the local Chinese, and were thought to have special powers and are able to call rain!
The underside of the Chinese Alligator
Can you spot the critically endangered Chinese Salamandar?
Our final stop before we left the park was the Giant Panda enclosure!! Even though both of us were in Beijing before, we did not manage to visit the Beijing Zoo during our Poly days to visit these beautiful creatures. Lucky for us, China had given Hong Kong An An and Jia Jia in 1997 to mark the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty. They were really big, and pretty looking. Sleeping in air-con confort, as the summer heat was too hot for them to handle, and being in a huge enclosure which had a slope and lots of fruits and other food scattered around for them to eat!
On 1 May 2007, two more Pandas - Le Le and Ying Ying were given to Hong Kong to mark the tenth year anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China. These two were originally from the Wolong Nature Reserve.
On 1 May 2007, two more Pandas - Le Le and Ying Ying were given to Hong Kong to mark the tenth year anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China. These two were originally from the Wolong Nature Reserve.
The 2008 Sichuan earthquake had hit the Wulong Nature Reserve and Ocean Park did their bit to help raise awareness.
A look at the Giant Panda enclosure.
The cuddly Red Pandas from China
These Red Pandas are also sometimes known as Firefox.
Lazy Giant Panda
Busy eating
A shot with the Panda in the background
Do they look alike? The Firefox and Marcus?
As fat and short as a Panda Bear! :D
'Pandas' in homes for sale
Yes. There is a panda sitting on my head!
One of the mascots of Ocean Park - James Fin H2O!
We bite too!
Good bye Ocean Park!
Upon return to the hotel, we got a little hungry, and decided to head out to the corner stall to pick up some supper!
Sotong, Meatball, Chicken Leg, Hotdog yummy yummy!
Decided to also take some pictures of the room
View of the door and the wardrobe beside it.
View from the door. You have the bed, the bedside table, the TV and the working table. And yeah, you also see our supper laid out on newspapers on the floor! haha
The shower area
The toilet bowl..
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